Toy



. Sept. 8 1925.

B. S. STEPHENS TOY Filed May 1. 1924 airman;

Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Be it known that rrrnirs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crete, in the county of Will, State of, 5 Illinois, have invented a new and useful Toy; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to toys and has for its object to provide a device of this character on which may be placed various figures, and the figures rotated over a race course for simulating racing. vertically disposed drive shaft having arms rotatably mounted thereon and terminating in upwardly extending figure receiving arms, said drive shaft being provided with ratchet teeth cooperating with notches of the collars of the arms and form means whereby upon the stopping of the driving motor, the arms will continue rotation, and consequently the figures carried by the arms will continue to move and stop incident to gravity.

A further object is to form the top of the device from a plurality of annular members spaced from each other, and between which the figure receiving portions of the arms extend, said annular ported by radially disposed bars above the top of the device and having depending arms connected to the annular members With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing, described and claimed, it being understood that change in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the toy. Figure 2 1s a vertical transverse sectlonal view through the toy.

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Application filed May 1, 1924. Serial No. 710,333.

I, BERNARD S. STE- Also to provide a members being supthereby forming annular tinned rotation of the figures after the vertically disposed shaft stops.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the cylindrical casing of the device, and 2 a chamber therein. within the chamber 2 is a motor 3 for driving the device, which motor may be of any kind desired, an electric or spring motor, however the motor 3 is provided with a horizontally disposed shaft 4, which shaft has its end provided with a bevelled gear 5, which meshes with a horizontally clis posed bevelled gear 6. Rotata-bly mounted in bearings 7 of the bottom 8 of the casing, and the round portion 9 of the top of the casing is a vertically disposed shaft 10, and on which shaft the gear 6 is mounted. It will be seen that when the, motor shaft 4 is rotated, the vertically disposed shaft 10 will be totated through the medium of the gears 5 and 6, however the shaft 10 rotates in the direction of the arrow a, the purpose of which will presently appear. mounted on the shaft 10 adjacent its upper end and above collars 11, formed integral with the shaft 10, are the collars 12 0f horizontally disposed arms 13. Collars 11 are provided with bevelled teeth 14:, which are received normally in the recesses 15 of the arm collars 12 as clearly shown in Figure 3, therefore it will be seen that when the motor 3 and the shaft 10 stop rotating the arms 13 will continue to rotate incident to their mo-- mentum, and the collars 12 will ride upwardly over the shoulders 14, thereby allowing figures 16 carried by the upwardly ex tending arms 17 of the arms 13 to continue to rotate and stop in various positions allowing the figures to simulate a racing operation, and at the same time allowing an element of chance for the various figures while simulating a racing operation.

The figures 16 are provided with rectangular shaped sockets 18, which receive the rectangular shaped portions 19 of the upper ends of the arms 17, and consequently the figures will be held detachably, therefore various kinds of figures may be easily and quickly applied to the device.

The top of the device is formed from a plurality of annular members 20, and the round member 9, and which members are spaced apart as clearly shown in Figure 1,

openings through which the arms 17 extend. To sup- Disposed Rotatably annular members and the round member 9 are securedly held and braced. The downwardly extending rods carried by the outer ends of the bars 22 are secured to the cylindrical casing 1,, therefore it will be seen that a racecourse is provided which is rigid, and one wherein the racing figures willl pass under the bars 22 and by means of bars the position of the figures in relation to each other may be easily ascertained, when they stop after a racing operation.

From the above it will be seen that a figured racing toy is provided which is simple in construction, motor operated, and one which may be cheaply constructed and sold. It will also be seen that the parts are reduced to a minimum and complicated mechanisms are eliminated.

The invention having been-set forth what is claimed as'new and useful is 1. A toy comprisinga cylindrical casing having a chamber therein, a vertically disposed shaft rotatably mounted in bearings of the casing within the chamber, -a motor disposed within the chamber, gear connections between the motor and the shaft, horizontally disposed arms within the chamber, collars carried by said arms, said collars be ing rotatably mounted on the shaft, collars carried byth'eshaftand rotatable therewith,

teeth carried by said collars and extending upwardly into the recesses :of the first mentioned collars and fornring ratchet connection between the collars, said arms having their outer end provided with upwardly extending arms extending through annular slots in the upper side of the casing and adapted to receive figures.

2. A figured toy comprising a casing, a vertically disposed drive shaft 111 said casing, means for rotating said drive shaft, horizontally disposed arms within the casingand having ratchet connections with the shaft, whereby upon stopping of'the shaft said arms will continue'to rotate, saidiratchet con nection comprising collars carried by the arms and rotatably mounted on the shaft, collars carried by the shaft and rotatable therewith andengaging the under sides of the first mentioned collars and upwardly extending teeth carried by the shaft collars and engagingin recesses of the collarscarriedby the arms, said casing having its top formed from a plurality of annular members in spaced relation thereby formin annular channels, said annular members being connected together and held in the same plane by bars above said annular members, said bars being provided with downwardly extending rods connected to the annular anembcrs and to the casing, said horizontally disposed arms being provided with upwardly extending figure receiving arms extending through-the annular slots.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

BERNARD STEPHENS. 

